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A Department for Work and Pensions minister has broken his silence over scrapping the most-hated DWP rule. Labour Party MP Sir Stephen Timms spoke out in the Commons, in the wake of being asked about the two-child benefit limit.

Sir Stephen said: "The Government is committed to tackling child poverty. The Child Poverty Taskforce is developing an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy which we will publish in the autumn.

"Commitments made at the 2025 spending review, and since then, are the latest steps in our Plan for Change to put extra pounds in people’s pockets – a downpayment on our Child Poverty Strategy, building on expansion of free breakfast clubs, the national minimum wage boost and the cap on Universal Credit deductions through the Fair Repayment Rate."

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